pant leg
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1.2
- noun
- /pænt lɛg/
- US
:
pernera
- I think my pant leg is on fire, he said after noticing the acrid smell.
- shirt sleeves and pant legs
And he lifts up his pant leg and there's a tattoo of me on his calf.
- And he lifts up his pant leg and there's a tattoo of me on his calf.
- As I turn around, my whole shoe gets stuck in the pant leg.
- I think my pant leg is on fire, he said after noticing the acrid smell.
- If you like rather wider pant legs then you can definitely find wide leg pants with a high waist like this one here.
- I went right through my pant leg two holes.
- But these two objects that are sticking out of my pant leg are like glowing white.
- He he may have brushed my car with his pant leg, but that's not hitting his leg.
- He, he fucking blows a nut on her and it ends up on her, on her pants leg.
Examples
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Yeah, you lift up that right pant leg there.
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Mr. Ching has removed his sandals and rolled up his pant legs to wade in the flooded paddy.
Fiction book (2002) -
My sister was holding onto his pant leg when it happened.
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And you cannot cut an entire pant leg out of a piece this small.
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I'm sorry I have to hold my pant leg because my knee is bleeding.
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I was filling up the car with gasoline, and then I spilled a little on my pant leg.
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The bark scratches her fingers, and she tears a pant leg in her rush.
Fiction book (1999) -
It had red stripes down the pant leg, two rows of gold buttons.
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My slacks were torn at the knee, the pant leg slick with blood.
Fiction book (1996) -
My sister was holding onto his pant leg when it happened.
Synonyms
87
1.0
The part of trousers that covers one lower body part
13
3.0
One leg of a pair of pants or the whole pair, mainly in British English
1
1.4
The part of a pair of pants that covers one leg
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'pant' (a garment covering the legs) + 'leg' (one limb or the part of the garment for one limb); this noun+noun structure straightforwardly denotes the portion of the garment that covers a single leg. The pattern is cross-linguistically common and even minor number morphology (pant vs. pants) does not obscure the transparent relation, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Pant leg: The name pant leg comes from a simple picture: a pair of pants has two cloth legs, and a pant leg is the tube that covers one leg. That's why it means 'the part of a pair of trousers that covers one leg'.